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<blockquote data-quote="Matt McIrvin" data-source="post: 64274" data-attributes="member: 590"><p>As I've said before, you'd be surprised how much people paid to play pinball back in its glory days. I tried to figure this out a while back using a simple inflation calculator, and the amounts typically charged by pinball machines for most of the last half of the 20th century usually translated to somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.75-$1.00 in today's money.</p><p></p><p>Before the late 1970s, they usually gave you 5 balls, but on the other hand, those balls often didn't last long; the old electromechanical machines were usually real drain monsters unless you were supremely skilled.</p><p></p><p>Charging a buck a play on a modern pin is really not unreasonable. And if people find it unreasonable, well, that's why pinball isn't such a great money-making proposition these days. Too many other forms of cheap entertainment are competing for the player's money and attention.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt McIrvin, post: 64274, member: 590"] As I've said before, you'd be surprised how much people paid to play pinball back in its glory days. I tried to figure this out a while back using a simple inflation calculator, and the amounts typically charged by pinball machines for most of the last half of the 20th century usually translated to somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.75-$1.00 in today's money. Before the late 1970s, they usually gave you 5 balls, but on the other hand, those balls often didn't last long; the old electromechanical machines were usually real drain monsters unless you were supremely skilled. Charging a buck a play on a modern pin is really not unreasonable. And if people find it unreasonable, well, that's why pinball isn't such a great money-making proposition these days. Too many other forms of cheap entertainment are competing for the player's money and attention. [/QUOTE]
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